What the Glorious Revolution did not change

Question 1

1) It did not end Whig-Tory divisions

Answer 1

. William III appointed both Whigs and Tories to key offices in England - compromise February 1689 brought temporary halt to their wrangling
. Divisions quickly emerged again especially on attitudes to Dissenters and involvement in Nine Years’ War (1688-97)

Question 2

2) It did not bring about the end of Relgious Toleration

Answer 2

Toleration Act = Creation of more comprehensive Church of England had been erected in 1660s.
1689 Comprehension Bill was to tempt majority of Protestant dissenters to join CoE - Bill failed to become law - Anglicans not prepared cooperate with dissenters.

Triumph of Presbyterians in Scotland and the abolition of episcopacy = Rank-and-file clergy vigorously opposed the Bill

Bill’s failure meant that although dissenters could legally worship freedom - humiliatingly doors of their meeting houses to remain open during their religious services - Test Acts were left unrepealed.

dissenter-meeting houses had to be registered with a bishop

Test-Acts enforcing acceptance of the Anglican sacraments on all office-holders were maintained.

Anglican intolerance of Protestant dissent that was temporarily suspended in the face of the common Catholic enemy in the reign of James II, grew rapidly in intensityin the 1690s and early 1700s.

Question 3

It did not bring about an end of the personal monarchy.

Answer 3

William III opposed further restrictions/fearful collapse of order - demands of more zealous Whigs (‘true Whigs’) for sweeping constitutional and ecclesiastical changes were swept aside and the pressing need for re-establishment of monarchical authority took predence

Question 4

Events of 1688-90 had important effects on what?

Answer 4

Church and constitution in the three kingdoms, but the nature of government in England had not changed fundamentally

Question 5

The powers of the monarch were now much more limited than ever before.

Answer 5

Personal monarchy was transformed into limited parliamentary monarchy.

Question 6

One of direct consequences is what?

Answer 6

Led directly to a long period of British involvement in European warfare. Figurehead.